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U.S. President Donald Trump asked Saudi Arabia to allow humanitarian aid to enter Yemen in 2017. [34] [35] In 2019, The United States Congress pushed to cease the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to address the famine in Yemen, but this was ultimately vetoed by the Trump Administration on three occasions. [36]
The United Nations appealed for $2.7 billion on Thursday to pay for humanitarian aid operations this year in war-torn Yemen, where most of the 18 million people in need live in the north of the ...
The US spends more on humanitarian aid than other countries by wide margins, though foreign aid spending is under 1% of the federal budget. ... Sudan, and Yemen. Of the $32.5 billion in spending ...
In March 2022, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator called for humanitarian assistance and protection of millions of people with essential services. At the June 2022 Yemen Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) meeting, stakeholders recognized the protection programming is only at 36.9 percent of the available 47.2 percent fund.
The war in Yemen has killed more than 150,000 people, including fighters and civilians, and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, killing tens of thousands more.
The U.S. Navy has actively participated in the Saudi-led naval blockade, [13] which humanitarian organizations argue has been the main contributing factor to the outbreak of famine in Yemen. [ 14 ] On 29 January 2017, the first United States raid authorised by President Donald Trump ended in multiple civilian deaths, including the death of ...
The heads of six U.N. agencies and three international humanitarian organizations issued a joint appeal Thursday to Yemen’s Houthi rebels for the immediate release of 17 members of their staff ...
Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation was founded in 2017 and registered both Seattle [2] as a 501(c)(3) charitable organisation and in Yemen. [1] It is governed by a volunteer board of directors, with minimal staff in the US. [1] Staff in Yemen are also volunteers, mostly current or former civil servants from the health and education ...